I read here https://www.sesamecommunications.com/wp-content/PPNarticles/2007-Q1/chair.html (and similarly in a book of facts from the TV series QI), that in the 1700s, the dentist would have held your head between his knees as he operated. I have read that before dentist chairs, they had stools...

To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey: The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of HMS Blossom, 1825–1828 contains Peard's claim that in Petropavlovsk, Kamchatka, "nearly every family possesses a Cow (against killing which there is a positive order from the Government)". What "order" was this and...

So it seemed that from the accounts of Thermopelea, Roman military strategy of waiting out an arrow storm, and Knights holding out for hours behind a shield wall during the first crusade it suggests that arrows were not effective weapons until later on, however it seems that archers and skirm...

In To the Pacific and Arctic with Beechey: The Journal of Lieutenant George Peard of HMS Blossom, 1825–1828, Peard mentions visiting "Mr. Tolman an American Settler" in Avatcha, Kamchatka, "7 or 8 miles from Petropaulowski towards the bottom of the bay". I've not found anything else on this fell...

Is there any hard physical evidence that the holocaust actually occurred? Im sure there is. Should not be a problem.

The Kehlsteinhaus, also known as the Eagle's Nest, is a villa for diplomatic receptions and a mountain retreat for Adolf Hitler built in 1938. There is a marble fireplace in the main room, which was Hitler's birthday gift from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. The back wall of the fireplace show...

The following excerpt is from Blinkist's summary of The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan: Europe after the plague was an altogether different place. The population had fallen dramatically, but this had served to empower the peasantry and to weaken the propertied classes. Wealth was now ...

Is it known how much text can be written with a quill of Shakesperes times and to estimate how many quills Shakespeare needed to write his works?

Hello . Can please someone help to know what are these coins . My father after he passed away he left a bag of coins . I would like to know what is each coin ? And its worth ? Thanks

Currently analyzing the famous speech of MLK "I have a dream" (essay) and I am supposed to figure out which part of his speech is the thesis and explain how he introduces it to the reader/audience but I can't figure out where he begins with that part. Which part of MLK's speech "I have a dream" ...

Can anyone plz tell me whats this coin ? I found it with other coin in a bag left by my father after he passed away .. thanks

I woild like to kno information about this coin ... Thanks

History tells us that Chinese people were treated miserably in hands of the West. Besides Opium War, the following image was one of the better evidences of British treatment of China. Chinese experience in America was also traumatic: Anti-Chinese sentiment in the United States Chinese ...

Is this a question for meta, rather than the main site, or would it be on topic there? I was thinking of asking on the SO movies site, first on meta, if it woule be on topic there, but I think that there would be more expertise here. I am looking for some movies, or docuemntaries, which are a...

My question is as follows. I would like any statistics or estimates of horse population growth in Europe after 1500. I am especially interested in the northern UK and areas that industrialized first. My reasoning is that I have a hypothesis that horses caused the industrial revolution. More horse...